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Welcome to our Q thread.

It's impossible to learn about Trump's successes and strategies by following the MSM. Please click on tangsoo's Q Boot Camp for a collection of files designed to quickly cover the basics. Other links at the top of the table above provide additional highlights that help explain how Q is critical to President Trump's 'information war' strategy, and what's really going on in our government.

Much preparation has gone into the strategy now unfolding in D.C. The groundwork has been laid and the path to justice is almost cleared of barriers.

By learning all we can, we are supporting President Trump's vision for our country.

MAGA!

Our prior Q thread is here: 
Q Anon: 12/31/18 Trust Trump's Plan 

 

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[mairdie]

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/democrats_hoist_with_their_own_petard.html

Democrats Hoist with Their Own Petard

Clarice Feldman

FTA:
Dumber still has been the Democrats’ ridiculous refusal to fund the $5 billion the President has asked to build the wall. Polls show overwhelming support for a hardened border and a halt to streams of illegals storming into the country from Mexico. Despite the best efforts of the media to show that it has created great hardships, the shutdown of about 25% of the federal government has not done so. The vast majority of the furloughed workers are Democratic voters. In effect, the Democrats handed them over to the president as hostages.

A look at Senator Schumer’s face in the public “negotiation” in the White House showed me that he realized the stunt was a loser. If I had any doubts, the picture of his face as he left the White House this past Friday confirmed it. He looked like a man being led to the gallows.
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The President has said he’ll keep the government shut down as long as it takes to build the wall, that the wall will be differently constructed in different places to suit the terrain and the Border Patrol’s recommendations. It may not have yet occurred to the Democrats, but the government cannot be reopened until they pass a spending bill that the Senate will vote for and the President will sign. Even if he wanted to, he couldn’t do it otherwise. Basic civics.

But Nancy Pelosi seems to have missed that while flunking high school civics, because she claimed this week that the Constitution makes her the President’s equal. The consequences of failing to understand the basic federalist structure in which she heads only one-half of one of the three branches are more significant than just getting an “F” on the final exam.

[mairdie]

>>Why do D’s always PUSH (force R’s to include Spending Bills for approval) BILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR FOREIGN AID?
Who audits where the money ‘actually’ goes?
How do politicians become ‘extremely’ wealthy while in office on gov’t salaries?
How do xyz ‘orgs’ etc. remain funded?
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Why do D’s only care about CONTROL/POWER?
POWER OF THE PURSE.
POWER = PROTECTION.
THE WHEEL OF CORRUPTION.
Welcome to the CON.

The ABOVE is, to me, the massive value of Q. I never even THOUGHT about foreign aid before. Other than thinking we’d be smarter to bribe other countries by only giving aid to those that HELP rather than HURT us. And suddenly Q woke me. Suddenly I understand why it was in the interest of the uniparty to constantly push foreign aid. I’m sure these ideas were out there, buried in some academic-like article that I would probably never have read. Not written about in the exciting language of the best article writers.

Interesting thought comes to me. If this concept suddenly appears as a topic among those writers, won’t it say that Q has moved to influence more than just us information-sucking masses?

[mairdie]

https://www.dailywire.com/news/39981/khachatrian-dont-listen-media-president-trump-had-harry-khachatrian

Don’t Listen To The Media. President Trump Had A Strong 2018

Harry Khachatrian

Despite the media’s unyielding obsession with Russian-collusion conspiracies, tax returns, Stormy Daniels, and any other scandal conjured through sophistry, President Donald Trump has accrued a slew of accomplishments in 2018 that deserve recognition.

From the economy to the Supreme Court to foreign policy, this past year has been replete with home runs for the 45th president.

Economy

Defying skeptics in the media, reputable economists, and Paul Krugman, Trump achieved GDP growth of 4.1% in 2018.

Trump helped stimulate the fastest economic growth since 2014 by reducing the corporate tax rate from 35% (the highest in the developed world) to a far more competitive 21%. In September, the national unemployment rate fell to 3.7% – the lowest it’s been since 1969. Furthermore, over the last year, businesses and corporations saw tremendous growth in profits fueled by Trump’s deregulation and tax cuts.

Some skeptics may point to the stock market’s feeble performance over the past few months – the biggest annual decline in a decade – as an indication of economic turmoil. That claim, however, erroneously conflates market performance with economic performance. Strong jobs numbers, wage and labor force participation increases, and GDP growth all indicate vigor, not volatility, in the economy.

The S&P 500 index may have taken a beating in 2018 (falling 6.2 percent), but so did the unemployment rate, dropping to a five-decade low. And the latest economic news reveals a massive hiring surge. The economy added 312,000 new jobs in December, far exceeding tepid expectations, and the average number of new jobs being created each month in 2018 increased 20 percent. Manufacturing jobs – a policy pillar of Trump’s presidential campaign – grew 714% faster under Trump than Obama. Moreover, average hourly wages increased by 3.2% from the previous year.

Trade

Through the entirety of his run for the presidency, Trump railed against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), vowing to renegotiate it and leverage more favorable terms for the U.S. economy. This year, he accomplished just that, renegotiating NAFTA with Canada and Mexico.

As part of the deal – called the USMCA – Trump opened Canada’s nineteen-billion-dollar diary industry to American markets, eliminating prior provisions that gave Canadian milk products an edge over their American competitors. Trump’s negotiations with Mexico and Canada also helped boost the domestic production of automobiles.

Over in the East, China capitulated to mounting pressure from Trump, agreeing to crack down on the production and trafficking of fentanyl. In 2017, the lethal, synthetic opioid was responsible for nearly 30,000 deaths in the US – 60% of all opioid overdoses in the country.

Foreign Policy

In stark contrast to every past president since Bill Clinton, Trump not only promised to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, he actually moved it, recognizing the historic Jewish city as the capital of Israel.

Under Trump’s tutelage, the U.S. withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The nominal human rights organization long eschewed its own title, filling its board with egregious human rights violators such as Egypt, where dissidents and journalists are imprisoned, and Cuba, where political opposition has long been stifled into oblivion.

And then there was the Iran deal — the zenith of Obama’s foreign policy. The Iran nuclear deal was signed hastily, and with many shortcomings. It removed a bevy of financial and military sanctions that could be used as bargaining tools; it provided no clear method to verify Iran’s adherence to the deal; it provided no means to stop the rogue regime from funneling its unfrozen asset to terrorist organizations; and it even admitted that in 10 years, Iran could begin development of nuclear weapons.

Consequently, Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Iran Deal (another campaign promise kept), and in 2018, reinstated all economic sanctions against the Iranian regime. Trump restored essential non-military options for dealing with Iran in the event that they accelerate their plans to procure a nuclear weapon.

The biggest 2018 headline was: Trump became the first sitting US president in history to meet with a North Korean leader. The momentous summit between the United States and the communist regime was promptly followed by North Korea announcing its plan for denuclearization before the end of Trump’s first term.

Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)

Trump was handed a second Supreme Court vacancy in 2018. To fill the position, the president nominated Yale Law School alum Brett Kavanaugh, who was subsequently bombarded with sexual misconduct accusations. Beginning with decades-old allegations bereft of corroborative witnesses, the media then rapaciously latched on to the wildest accusations they could find: that in his highbrow college years, Kavanaugh was (allegedly) a serial gang rape ring-leader. The story crumbled when the accuser changed her story, admitting she never witnessed Kavanaugh doing anything other than being present at a party.

Trump supported Kavanaugh through the entire charade, refusing to withdraw his nomination at the behest of far-left activists and the media. On October 6, Kavanaugh took the oath of office, shortly after he was successfully voted in by the Senate.

Freeing Americans From Foreign Captivity

From day one of his presidency to today, Trump and his administration have negotiated and secured the release of 17 American citizens from foreign captivity. And in contrast to his predecessor, President Obama, Trump didn’t pay ransom fees or free terrorists as concessions.

In 2018, Trump negotiated the release of an American pastor from Erdogan’s regime in Turkey, secured the freedoms of three Americans held in North Korea, and gave an endearing welcome home to an American held prisoner in a Venezuelan slum for two years, just to name a few.

Notwithstanding these accomplishments, tune in to CNN or MSNBC, pick up a copy of the New York Times or Washington Post, and you’re force-fed the same fodder: “Trump is trying to distract you from his criminal wrongdoings. His presidency is headed downhill and impeachment is imminent.”

A few examples from CNN:

“What Trump is trying to distract you from,” Chris Cillizza

“Donald Trump’s DC is a dangerous global distraction,” Nic Robertson

“Trump is distracting you from this,” Don Lemon

These aren’t cherry-picked outliers. Successive studies (see here and here) on the media’s coverage of Trump’s presidency arrive at the same conclusion: it’s overwhelmingly negative (upwards of 92%). The media isn’t enamored with the vagaries of the Mueller investigation because they deem it to be the most pressing story of the modern era. Mueller coverage is the media’s way of distracting from what Trump is really doing: successfully following through on a bevy of campaign promises.

[musicnart]

Posting blind. My apology if this has already been posted.

Thread by @RoscoeBDavis1: "Some people have shown interest once again in Benghazi, to me this tragedy is still very important. I'm not talking about Susan Rice hitting […]" #Benghazi #DeepStateExposed

TracyBeanz recommended this as a brilliant MUST READ
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1080586426440450048.html

[hillarynot]

My ode on the new House of Representatives

Congress is now back in town
And they’re led by Pelosi the clown
With the Dems now in charge, their mission is large
It’s to bring the President down

The committee named Ju-diciary
Is led by a fat guy name Jerry
Nadler’s his name, impeachment his game
The next two years will be scary

Elijah will lead oversight
He doesn’t appear very bright
He’s from Baltimore, and he’s such a whore
His goal will be just to indict

Intelligence lead goes to Schiff
He’ll review all the stuff in a skiff
Then CNN gets a call, and he spills it all
Schiff the leaker should jump off a cliff

The biggest joke of them all
Maxine Waters getting the call
Financial stuff is the gig, and that’s really big
She’ll get to steal another big haul

A new name entered the fray
And she made some news the first day
The Palestinean clucker, who said Motherf**cker
For that comment someday she’ll pay

Ocasio Cortez is not
The brightest bulb in the lot
She says stupid stuff, a lot off the cuff
But as a looker she is kinda hot

So buckle up my friends for the ride
As we stand with Q by our side
He says trust the plan, hope the sh*t hits the fan
And derps will all soon will get fried

[stars & stripes forever]

AMERICA PRAYER VIGIL, January 6, 2019

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[mairdie]

Debugging a theory

https://nypost.com/2019/01/06/sonic-attacks-at-us-embassy-in-cuba-may-have-just-been-crickets/

‘Sonic attacks’ at US embassy in Cuba may have just been crickets

FTA:
But a fresh analysis of an audio recording made by US personnel in Cuba revealed that the source of the piercing din is the song of the Indies short-tailed cricket, known as Anurogryllus celerinictus, a study says.

“The recording is definitively a cricket that belongs to the same group,” said Fernando Montealegre-Zapata, a professor of sensory biology at the University of Lincoln who participated in the study, according to The Guardian. “The call of this Caribbean species is about 7 kHz, and is delivered at an unusually high rate, which gives humans the sensation of a continuous sharp trill.”

The study, by Montealegre-Zapata and Alexander Stubbs at the University of California, was published Jan. 4 on the website bioRxiv.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/01/04/510834

[mairdie]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/ted-malloch-nine-predictions-for-a-dangerous-2019/

Ted Malloch: Nine Predictions for a Dangerous 2019

FTA:
1 - Trump will remain in office and set for reelection, Keeping America Great. The government will reopen and a border barrier built. The impeachment campaign will fall flat on its face and the Mueller report, long awaited, will end with a whimper and aggressive rebuttal.

2 - Brexit will happen and the UK will leave the failed EU in a clean break, without an agreement and without forking over a ton of cash, They will proceed ahead on WTO trade rules and the economy will hardly suffer an iota; quite the contrary.

3 - As the US departs Syria, Iran and its proxies will try and fill the power vacuum, thereby starting a larger regional conflict involving Israel. It will not end well for the Iranians and their regime will suffer, as will the Ayatollahs. Oil prices will shoot up. Ending the year at almost $80 a barrel

4 - The global economy will retract as Europe slows under the dead weight of the Euro, slow growth and increased trade tensions. The US will be the only strong man left, growing at plus 3 per cent a year and witnessing yet more job expansion. The stock market – Dow Jones will end 2019 at just short of 28,000. America is the best safe haven.

5 - China will cry out “uncle” after its leadership realizes they are doomed facing an adversary like Trump. They will capitulate on nearly everything from tariffs to non-tariff barriers to intellectual property. The so-called ‘Asia century’ is postponed, indefinitely.

6 - The EU will reform after the 2019 election where the populist parties coalesce to form the majority. The old European Project will be discarded and a smaller, leaner pro-sovereignty EU will take shape around a common market, full stop.

7 - New breakthrough drugs will come to market that provide wonders — ranging from the prevention of cancers to the elimination of certain diseases, like malaria, ebola, HIV and Alzheimer’s. Invest.

8 - Automation, robotization and blockchain will continue apace, changing forever the way business is done, workers work, and things are made. White-collar jobs will be dramatically affected — not just blue-collar ones.

9 - Social media will become even more totalitarian by policing “hate speech”, censoring anyone they disagree with, and monopolizing our lives, wallets and minds. The backlash will begin. People will drop out, go local, off-line, and governments will regulate and commence anti-trust actions against FAANG.

And a bonus…

10 - Outer space will be back in vogue with many countries jumping into the next frontier. The US will launch its Space Force as a new military service, set a time to go to Mars and return to the moon.

[stars & stripes forever]

AMERICA PRAYER VIGIL, January 7, 2019

[mairdie]

Even with the arrival of a pan-Arabian security force, this much reassures me.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/01/07/john-bolton-no-withdrawal-syria-without-security-guarantees-kurds/

John Bolton: No Withdrawal from Syria Without Security Guarantees for Kurds

FTA:
Washington maintains that the YPG and the PKK are two different entities, infuriating the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Following President Donald Trump’s remarks implying he would soon withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria, Erdogan officials suggested they were ready to send troops into northern Manbij, Syria, where the YPG is established. American troops are currently stationed in Manbij, making a Turkish offensive against the Kurds a major risk for Ankara.

Speaking shortly before leaving to Ankara to meet with senior Turkish officials, including Erdogan, Bolton asserted that the Trump administration highly discouraged Turkish troops from operating without coordinating with U.S. counterparts, particularly regarding the Syrian Kurds.

“We don’t think the Turks ought to undertake military action that’s not fully coordinated with and agreed to by the United States, at a minimum, so they don’t endanger our troops but also so that they meet the president’s requirement that the Syrian opposition forces that have fought with us are not endangered,” Bolton reportedly said, adding that Trump would “not allow Turkey to kill the Kurds.”

Bolton asserted that U.S. troops were not going to leave the Manbij area anytime soon without concrete safeguards in place for the Kurds, suggesting an indefinite timeline for withdrawal, if withdrawal occurs at all. The New York Times reported that Bolton required of the Turks significant assurances that they would not expel the Kurds from Manbij before U.S. troops left.
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Yeni Safak, a virulently pro-Erdogan newspaper, reported that Bolton arrived in Ankara with a map of a “new Sykes-Picot” arrangement breaking up Syrian territory into Sunni Arab, Shiite Arab, and Kurdish sectors. The Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 created the modern borders of the Middle East and became a rallying cry for the Islamic State in 2013-2014; the “caliphate” was intended to tear down the British and French early 20th century borders. Yeni Safak cited the Wall Street Journal as the source of their reporting.

Turkish officials have already responded to Bolton’s remarks Sunday, calling them “irrational.”

“The issue is PKK/PYD/YPG are making efforts to establish an order by oppressing Kurds, who don’t obey them, and their terrorist activities against our country,” Erdogan spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said. “There is no doubt that a terror group cannot be an ally of the U.S.”

[mbrfl]

I have a feeling we may actually be getting close to a significant development we’ve all been wanting - the public discrediting and takedown of the MSM. Will it happen overnight? No. But there are signs that it’s just beyond the horizon. We’ve seen over the last two days, a NY Times reporter and a reporter for NBC publicly criticize their employers for anti-Trump bias. Don’t believe this is a coincidence. We also have hints from Q that Maggie Haberman may have been flipped, albeit reluctantly. Timing is everything. My guess is that key figures in the mocking bird press have been given deals. They play a role in exposing the MSM scam, and certain crimes they have committed will be overlooked. Haberman seems to be having cold feet, and Q is telling her the time is coming for her to play her part, whatever that may be, and if she won’t do so, she looses her deal. What is the part she has been asked to play? Perhaps publicly asking ‘the question’ of POTUS (i.e. Is Q real?)? I’m just speculating.

In related news, there is a rumor floating around that is intriguing. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I think it’s worth considering. Some have suggested that military tribunals have already begun. They started on Jan. 2, the day after POTUS’s EO took effect. The claim is that they will take place in secret but will be recorded. POTUS may release the recordings after the fact, at least in part. Evidence in favor of this theory is the seeming public disappearance of the Clintons, Bushes, Obamas, and John Brennan since GHWB’s funeral.

If this is true it goes against what most of us had anticipated, but from an operational standpoint makes sense. How do you break this horrific crimes of treason to the public? Most of us assumed charges would be made public, some evidence would be released to the public to show that the charges had evidence to support them, and then the trials would proceed. That seemed to make the most sense for it would be a way to slowly red pill people to the truth. On the other hand, there may be advantages to proceeding in private and revealing the truth after the fact. The shock to public will be great, but POTUS will be able to quash any claims that the charges were fake by releasing all the evidence that will be necessary to do so. No more concerns about tainting the evidence, etc. Some of the principles may even plead guilty to avoid the death penalty or to protect family members. Those who did so will be on tape admitting their guilt.

However it goes down, it will be a major shock to many people.